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Be careful not to confuse the old Ptp photograph with the Freakylinks TV show promotional hoax photo. Notice the differences below:

The photo on the right, a hoax, was made in imitation of the original genuine photo (on left)

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Before listing online resources on the old Ptp photograph, let’s briefly go over one of the evidences of authenticity: accurate distances from soldier to camera. (We have no need to examine the hoax-photo connected with the Freakylinks television show, for that is a known hoax, from about the year 2001.)

Coded for back-soldiers (five of them) and front-soldier (one)

I (Jonathan Whitcomb) found that both belt buckles and buttons, when magnified, showed that FS was actually closer to the camera than other soldiers. In addition, the back soldiers had some consistency with each other, in that same sense.

This is consistent with the idea that the men were actually standing together when a photograph was recorded. It is not likely such distance-accuracy would have been both planned and executed by a hoaxer in pasting soldiers onto a background.

This blog post quotes from the cryptozoology book Modern Pterosaurs, although it is certainly not restricted to quoting from that publication.

The chapters quoted were #3 (Credibility of eyewitnesses) and #7 (Photo of a pterosaur). Here’s a small part from Chapter 3:

Most of the eyewitness reports in the previous chapter were sent to me many years after the encounters. That can appear to damage their credibility, for memory is known to fade over time and become distorted. To get a more balanced perspective, consider the following reports, sent to me soon after the encounters.

It mentions the book Modern Pterosaurs. In the section “Reply to Skeptics,” it explains why a hoaxer would not paste images of soldiers onto another photograph. It also mentions one of the evidences of authenticity found by the American physicist Clifford Paiva.

In the section “World-View Influence on Personal Interpretations,” personal assumptions are dealt with: how prior ideas about extinctions influence how we see the photograph Ptp.

It also has a section titled “Confusion From a More-Recent Photo.” This refers to the more-recent hoax photo (for a TV show) and to how it imitated the older genuine photo.

This is a brief book review of the nonfiction Modern Pterosaurs, quoting from Chapters One, Two, and Seven. A sighting in Melbourne, Australia, is mentioned and why it is difficult to get a photo of a flying pterosaur, especially when a person is driving.

This is a long article on how an American got involved in living-pterosaur research and about the expedition of 2004, on Umboi Island, and how it relates to the Ptp photograph.

Later, it quotes from the book Modern Pterosaurs: Title page, Introduction, and Chapter 7. It shows how a tree branch under the beak of the apparent Pteranodon was a prop used to keep the soldier’s foot steady. This is evidence the photo is old, probably older than about 1870.